George Blogs on Protecting Your Company During Layoffs
Today the popular business site Down to Business published a guest post by George Lenard entitled, “Avoiding Layoff-Related Lawsuits.”
The post covers:
- The implications of the broken social contract between laid-off workers and employers. (In other words, today “laid off” = “you’ve been fired,” not “we’ll call you back when business picks up.”)
- The WARN act and the RIF (Reduction in Force) process.
- Protecting your company from employment discrimination suits while conducting layoffs.
After all, if you must lay people off, you’re doing so to spare your shareholders — and your remaining employees — by saving money.
Avoiding expensive lawsuits in the process will protect those savings.
